EXPENSIVE BILLETS
SOLDIERS’ BUNKS IN SHOPS LONDON, November 1. Soldiers off duty lean out of the small windows in the boarded fronts of a parade of modern shops on the outskirts of London and watch the traffic. The double-tier bunks they rest on are just visible to the‘passerby. These bunks are worth seeing because they must be some of the most expensively-housed in the Home Counties. The rent for the three shops where the soldiers are sleeping is £l2OO a year. An estate agent said they were taken by the military in the early part of this year. Houses and flats outside the shopping centre were available, but the lucky owner of this 50-odd feet of frontage obtained the £l2OO a year he was asking—for bedrooms. The owner of a motor showroom m the same town, who used to get £BOO a year when trade was at the height of its prosperity, has let his premises to the Army at £5OO a year. Yet another garage which has ’ been used for sleeping is let at £4OO a year.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 December 1940, Page 10
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